Childe Roland, a French-speaking poet from Canada, moved to Wales in the 1970s. He works in the concrete, found and sound poetry field and since the 1980s has devoted himself entirely to poetry. He is currently interested in choral and multi-media settings of pieces which are often a mix of English, French and Welsh. SHEARWATER ORATORIO DERYN DRYCIN LIBRETTO CLAMOR MEA…AD TE VENIAT… DIT-DIT-DAH-DIT…TANGO FOXTROT…SHEAR-SHEARWATER HEAR MY CLAMOUR…BARDSEY CALLING…DAYS ARE SHORTER ROGER OVER…UP THE TEMPO…EQUI-QUI-NOX TANGO FOXTROT…MORE THAN READY…BI-O-RYTH-THEMS NOW DEPARTING…COASTAL WATERS…ARGENTINA NAVIGATION…NORTH MAGNETIC…CONSTELLATION URSA MINOR…STAR POLARS…OFF-SHORE ODOURS TRADE WIND CHASER…UP DRAFT RIDER…WAVE TOP i-DOT CORCOVADO…HUNCH-BACK MOUNTAIN…PEAKS AND BEACHES SUGAR LOAFY…PERNAMBUCO…SAMBA ZOMBIE MORE RUBATO…GULF STREAM CURRENT…BEARING BOTTLE WITH A BAR CODE…AND A WARNING…DEVIL’S ISLAND GUADELOUPE…CORAL ATOLL…TREASURE REEF WRECK FINDERS KEEPERS…PUERTO RICO…ARECIBO RADAR CRATER…DEEP SPACE CHATTER…HIPS CALYPSO LOVE VOLCANIC…VIVA RUMBA…BARCARIBBIE IN THE DOLDRUMS…CYCLONE BROODY…BOLT OF LIGHTNING TURKS AND CAICOS…GREEN BACK TURTLE…CAPE CARN’VRAL WE HAVE LIFT OFF…CAROLINA…IN THE MORNING CHAPPAQUIDICK…NEW YORK HARBOUR…TOUR OF STATUE LIBER-TY LIT…BOOGIE-WOOGIE…SEWAGE OUTLET UPSET TUMMY…BAY OF FUNDY…SCHOONER BLUE NOSE JACK TAR SHANTY…UP THE ANTE…I AM HUNGRY GRAND BANKS PLUNDER’D…FISH STOCKS SCANTY…IN FLIGHT PERILS TANKER OIL SLICK…BITS OF PLASTIC…NYLON NOOSES ICE TITANIC…NORTH ATLANTIC…MELTING EARLY GLOBAL WARMING…WHALE AND DOLPHIN…RAINBOW FRIENDLY MISERERE…ME-i DE-US…TRAWLER WIRELESS WEATHER FORECAST…ROCKALL MALIN…SQUALLY SHOWERS BUTT OF LEWIS…STRATO-NIMBUS…SEA LANE BUSY IRISH FERRY…WYT TI’N DERBYN…DIT-DIT-DAH-DIT UNWAITH ETO…DERYN DRYCIN…DROSIRWERYDD YN DYCHWELYD…CATREF ENLLI…FELL PERERIN YNYS FEITRYN…CWRDD Y MILOEDD…UWCH YR EWYN RHWNG Y CWYSI…AR OL PEDAIR…FLACH OLEUDY SWN EI GORN NIWL…DIOGELWCH…RHAG Y GELYN YSGLYFAETHUS…TUAG ADRE…AR NOS DYWYLL A DI-LEUAD…NYTH FELL DRYSFA…YNG NGHLAWDD CERRIG Y CYW PLUOG…MAE O’N DANFON…DIT-DIT-DAH-DIT SHER-SHEARWATER…RAFT OF THOUSANDS…HOLLY ROLLERS HEAR MY CLAMOUR…FOG HORN ECHO…ECHO TANGO BLINK-A-BLINK-BLINK…BARDSEY LIGHTHOUSE…DAYLIGHT RAIDERS RETURN SAFELY…COVER DARKNESS…SOONER MOONLESS BURROW CHICKY…ONE AND ONLY… Based on a Morse code translation of the Manx Shearwater's enigmatic cry, the work records some of the sights and sounds (and environmental disasters) that the bird encounters in its epic migration from as far as Argentina to its breeding site on Bardsey island in North Wales. First performed by poet, 25 person choir and instrumentalists at the stone circle, Plas Newydd, Llangollen in July 2000. JONES, THE POEM JONES, THE POEM, THE HIGH FLOWN PHRASES, THE HARPING HARMONIUM, THE DRONE, THE DOS AND DONTS, THE SONAR MOPANING JONAH OF WHALES, JONES, THE ONOMATOPOEIC OMEN, THE OMEGA OHM RESISTANT EARPHONE, THE OMICRON SIN OF OMISSION, THE THESSALONIAN MONOCHROME NEWS, THE PATAGONIAN-SNOWDONIAN OPPONENT, THE LLEYN AERODROME FIRE, JONES, THE BROMIDE, THE BRIMSTONE, THE SANCTIMONIOUS PRONOUNCEMENT UPON JONES, THE PROMISCUOUS HEAD HUNTING SALOME, JONES, THE WINDSOWN STORM-REAPED CYCLONE, JONES, AS IN DAVY JONES, THE COGNOMEN, THE PERSONA, THE PRONOUN, THE DOME DOMESTICATED OZONE ERODING HOMOSAPIENS, JONES PRONOUNCED JONES WITH TEA AND BUTTERED SCONES, JONES, THE HYPHENATED STATUS SEEKING POLYNOMILA, THE TESTIMONIAL, THE CEREMONIAL CHAIN, THE BARONIAL SEAT, THE MATRIMONIAL TRAPPINGS, THE WHALEBONE CHAPERONED BREASTBONE, JONES, THE OXONIAN DIPLOMA, THE IONAIN PLINTH OF ADONIS, THE LEATHER-BOUND TOME, JONES, THE CHROMOSOME, THE CLONE, THE FOAM AND FOMENT, THE SEA ANENOME, JONES, HONED ON THE WHETTING STONE OF LONELINESS, JONES, THE GROAN, THE METRONOME, THE BAROMETRIC BARITONE, ONCE KNOWN AS JONES, THE PHILHARMONIOUS PHILOMENA CON MOLTO ESPRESSIONE, JONES, THE CAMOMILE SMILE, THE PAGE THREE MONALISA, NOW MISSUS MALONE, JONES, THE SMOULDERING CORONA, THE DOW JONES INDEX, THE ZIRCONIUM FUTURE, JONES NOME, ALASKA, JONES, THE POSTPONEMENT AND ITS ATONEMENT, JONES, THE DRACONIAN AND PARSIMONIOUS DONATION, JONES, WHO OWNS, JONES, THROUGH JONES, THE NEO-COLONIAL LOAN, JONES, THE PRONE POSITION, THE ONUS AND THEREFORE THE BONUS, JONES, WITH HIS AND HER COVER BLOWN, JONES, JONES IN NAME ONLY, JONES, THE COMB, THE ABELONE KEEPSAKE, JONES, THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN NAMELY LONELINESS, JONES, PLAYING JOAN OF ARC WITH THE GENTLEMEN OF VERONA, JONES, THE PAVING-STONE PROMOTED TO JONES, THE KERBSTONE, JONES, WITH HIS AND HER CRONY, THE ERRONEOUS CHRONOMETOR, THE NOMADIC SHADOW, THE STONEHENGE GNOMON, THE ROMANY ROAN, JONES, THE PONY, THE EXPONENT OF THE EXPONENTIAL CURVE, THE RANGE AND DOMAIN OF JONES, THE UNKNOWN, THE HIPPODROME COME BINGODROME SYNDROME, THE ACORN VERSUS THE PINE CONE, JONES, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, THE PHENOBARBITONE, THE PSYCHO- MATIC VENDING MACHINE, THE ROMAN NUMERAL, THE ANNO DOMINE CARVED CORNER STONE, THE HONEYCOMBED TOWER OF LONELINESS, JONES, THROWN TO THE LIONS, JONES, THE MARYLEBONE STREET CATACOMB OF THE LONDONIAN METRO, JONES, THE HOMESICK TROMBONE, THE FELONIOUSLY BLOWN SEMITONE, THE XYLOPHONE REASONATING ARCHIPELAGO, JONES, IN A COMA, MOWN DOWN BY JONES, THE ALPHA-ROMEO, JONES, THE DETONATOR, BLOWN TO SMITHEREENS BY JONES, COUNTY TYRONE, JONES, THE ABDOMEN AND ITS HUNGRY DOMINIONS, JONES, THE HOMING PIGEON COMBING THE JONES-FILLED PAGES OF THE CALEDONIAN LANDSCAPE FOR JONES, THE AGRINOMIAL RHIZOME, THE PHLOEM, THE OMOPLATED DEVONIAN RIDGE ABOVE JONES, THE LOAMY RIVER BOTTOM, JONES, THE SPENT PLUTONIUM, THE ISOMAR, THE MISNOMER, THE NEIGHBOURHOOD HOMER, THE RETIRED SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE WOUND UP GRAMAPHONE, THE BARCELONIAN BRIGADE, THE BEGONIA FLOWERING SARCOMA, JONES, THE CORTISONE, THE HOMEOPATHIC PATH, THE AMMONIA FUELLED PNEUMONIA, JONES, THE HORMONE, THE EAU DE COLOGNE, JONES, THE AROMA, THE MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE, JONES, THE MILL-STONE AROUND THE NECK OF JONES AND SOAMES, JONES, THE GLAUCOMA STRUCK STAINED GLASS TEMPTATION OF SAINT JEROME, JONES, THE STEPPING-STONE, THE MILE-STONE, THE TOMB-STONE, JONES, THE GARDEN GNOME, THE OVERGROWN NOMENCLATURE OF LONELINESS, THE MOMENTARILY MOMENTOUS MOMENT OF MOMENTUM, JONES, JONESY AND LONELY, ANOTHER POLONIUS, DESDEMONA, NAOMY JONES.